Word: incrementally
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...this concept (which is hard on small corporations that use little capital in proportion to their earnings) and confused it. As an alternative, the subcommittee added what was in effect a war-profits tax-a tax on profits above the average of three or four pre-tax years, the increment being supposedly attributable to the defense boom. For the sake of speed, the Treasury raised no objection to this hybridization, and the House passed it like a hot potato...
...spectacular features, speakers who will secure the headlines. and finally in the result of it all, the announcement of funds. ... If these college commencements were reduced to their former modest simplicity, if representatives of great financial houses and industries were to play a lesser role, the annual increment would probably fall...
After summarizing his two previous lectures in which he pointed out that the prosperity of the West had been due to the increase of the increment value of land, the dean of American newspapermen described the plight they were new in with the reckless era of expansion definitely concluded...
...some 10,000 private fliers in the U. S. and in the four years from 1934 to 1938 there were 690 fatal accidents in U. S. private and miscellaneous flying. But diligent CAA is determined that these totals shall not be increased in proportion to the huge annual increment in amateur fliers for which it will be responsible. Last week it had small-plane manufacturers working on one of the measures it expects the flying industry to take to keep fatalities from reaching a truly appalling figure...
Characterizing the mounting toll of traffic fatalities as "largely an after dark increment," Val J. Roper, engineer in charge of automotive lighting of the General Electric Company, advocated an increase from 30 to 50 watts in the brilliance of headlight, in an address at the Burean for Street Traffic Research yesterday...